3101935 - SAP SuccessFactors is moving to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) - Table Report/Canvas/Tiles/Report Story

SAP SuccessFactors is standardizing the use of time across all our systems (applications, databases, and servers) across all our data centers in our continuous effort to align with the cloud industry's best practices for improved data integrity, security and scalability. SAP SuccessFactors is moving its platform to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).

SAP SuccessFactors offers global services and currently supports multiple time zones. We must have a consistent, reliable time zone across all geographies to ensure that applications behave the same regardless of physical location. UTC is a natural choice given our global customer base, and UTC is not subject to Daylight Saving Time.

The impact that will be seen is that a new version of some date fields (columns) for Table, Tile, Canvas, and Story reports are available, suffixed with either (Timestamp) or (Date). The fields suffixed with (Timestamp) display a transaction date as per the logged-in user's time zone, whereas the fields suffixed with (Date) are independent of time zone and always display the same values.

IMPORTANT

• We highly recommend that you replace the older date columns in your Table, Tile, Canvas, and Story reports with their newer version, which are time zone resilient.
• Additionally, you must use only the newer version of the date fields in all your future reports.
• If your required actions are not carried out before the platform time is changed to UTC 30 days prior to your transition to the hyperscaler environment, you may incur potential issues. Reports which included fields in local time could start bringing time in UTC instead.

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